Graphic designers are known to suffer from word blindness when looking at the same words over and over again during visual design. Does the same thing happen with visual effects?
TL;DRYes, effects artists get blind to their own work, for example after an hour of tweaking fire, so they take breaks and rely on colleagues to point out what they no longer see.
Yes. For me, it's obviously not so much text or anything like that. It's more motion and intensity. A good example is when I'm working on the fire effects and tweaking values with different strengths on the actual fire effect. After about an hour, it's hard for me to distinguish between the changes I'm making. And that's just because it's like when you're sitting in the back of a car that's moving for a long time, and then you stop, and your vision continues to make you feel like you're moving. That definitely happens to me a lot. So it's important to take breaks, work on another type of effect, or even something completely different, and then come back to it. Otherwise, you just waste time making changes that don't make any sense.
I think that's where your colleagues come in useful as well. It's nice to show an effect that you've been staring at for so long. I might give Teo some feedback, or he might give me some feedback, or Leo, anyone in the team will point things out that you've just become blind to, because again, you've just been looking at it for so long.